Hello everyone! What a crazy season! It seems like yesterday that it began. Those frustrating 39 days have finally come to an end and now it’s time for us to vote for a winner. I do have express a certain regret that I am not sitting the place one of you all – but hey, at least now I get to speak my mind and make a decision. My speech is initially me saying what I think. A third of it is a rant (you knew this was coming honeypot). I will not ask any questions from any of you, but if you do feel you want to add some comments, feel free to post them. I did come to this Tribal with my mind halfway made up and I can be swayed still – but not based on things like answers but based on your general Final Tribal Council performance. So.. let’s get this started shall we.

I would say that the Final Three I see before me is a very predictable one. If I had to name your alliance, it would be “Preschool Kids” which does essentially describe the essence of your gameplay. You had the most toys in the game and you dug your way to the end with them. I do feel that the actual best players of the season are in the jury now – whereas three people who benefitted from the advantages and stupid decisions of others are in the end. Nowhere is this more true than with Benj.

Benj, I always thought you are nice. During the first swap you seemed nice, easy to talk to and not threatening at all. Boy was I wrong when you whipped out some serious advantages and also an idol and definitely sent some players packing. However, I feel that if this season didn’t have so many advantages you wouldn’t have had any gameplay. Knowing how to use advantages is a very small part of a season – it’s the strategy and social play that are the key and I don’t think you had any of that. You just got lucky basically. In a normal season without advantages you would have been 14th person voted out instead of Ricky – let’s just be honest. I would like to use a quote by the High Sparrow from Game of Thrones to support my point.

“Strip away the gold and the ornaments, knock down the statues and the pilars, and this is what remains. Something simple. Solid. And true.. What will we find when we strip away your finery?”

I personally don’t think we would find much. You just had a lot of toys and you used them but you did not have great gameplay without them. You also benefitted from the stupid decisions of Jayme and everyone else and that’s essentially what carried you to the end.. and well the tribe flag jury being biased because had I won that part, I would have won Final Immunity and would have sent you packing instead!

Jessy, I started out this season initially disliking you and wanting you out. We even had a catfight – I suppose you do have to have one when it’s such an All Stars season. However, I do realise that I misjudged you. I may not agree with the way you have played – but I do like you as a person. I do very much intend to keep my promise to you about not being mean to you in my speech. We already hashed things out in front of everyone and in private and it would be completely useless for me to drag something to the light when it has already been resolved. I do have to also admit you had a very big influence on this season. Should you win I will definitely cheer you on as the first ever female double winner. However, I do feel that you have a lot to make up to in your Final Tribal Council performance when it comes to some of the jurors. Me and quite a few others did not like how you said you didn’t need to talk to some of us because we were on the side opposite to yours. I do not think that is a good strategy. In my original season the biggest jury threat was Sole, and we were always on opposite sides. He went on an immunity run and was impossible to get out – and despite me wanting him out I kept interacting with the guy. I eventually voted him out but despite that we actually became friends. That’s how you treat someone on the other side. I am not mean or bitter towards you really, but I do think you should know that your social game this season was at the very least a little lacking. Best of luck with your Final Tribal – you will need it.

And now, with great reluctance I shall move onto the person that I want to speak to the least tonight. Jayme.. adorable, scared little Jayme. First of all, the way this works is that I get to do what you did to me this entire season. I get to shit on you and you will have to sit there and take it. Before you post ANYTHING as a response, read this speech fully, put away your arrogant attitude and actually be honest for once. Your tribal council speech has already angered me - believe me, you do not want to test me.

I have written and rewritten the part of this speech that addresses you directly. I keep on doing that because I don’t quite have the words to express how I feel about you. Or rather.. no matter how I write it down it seems I have still not said enough to cover the fact of how badly I think you have done this season. You were one of the people I absolutely adored. Someone I thought I would be able to rely on til the very last second of this game. Even better, you were someone who promised to go with me to the end. If you hear such a thing from another person in the game how awesome is that? Especially since it was at merge too! It’s a promise I would only give out if I actually meant it – and for the longest time it actually seemed that maybe you did as well. How wrong I was.

Things were rather peachy between us pre-merge but BOY did they go wrong at the merge. As soon as you sensed you were even at least a little at the bottom of the alliance you flipped … to the bottom of another alliance. That was legit the only decision that you made on your own this season and despite it bringing you to the end it was a dumb move. So therefore, please do not sit there taking credit for everyone’s moves. We are not stupid.

And remember, in the end no one here wins a million dollars. All they win is glory. And friends. Your actions this season have definitely lost you some friends – and now you have lost me too.

I mean how can I like someone who blames me for the Forrest vote.. but then says that he knew all along about the Miguel vote and did nothing to stop it? You knew all this time about the idol and didn’t tell any of us? You knew that I was in danger and you didn’t at the very least tell ME about that? And then you accuse US of breaking YOUR trust? And even if the trustbreaking was entirely on my side, you should have told me where you stood instead of dragging me around on a leash like a dog. Who accused me at the start of the merge of leaving them out of information? Well guess what – you did the same thing except worse. You told me the entire time you were open to getting rid of the likes of Benj or Jessy – and that you were definitely still going to the end with me. That was AFTER the Forrest vote. If you wanted me to respect you after that you should have been upfront with me. You should have said you would never work with me and the others again. You shouldn’t have said every tribal: “Oh too early to get rid of Jessy now! I am interested though.. maybe next tribal?” Maybe then we would have stopped hoping for it and gotten rid of you once and for all. Because the only reason you sit here now is simply because me and Adam spared you at Final 6. A lot of good it did to us!

You know, when I knew you flipped I still trusted you. I figured that since you promised ME, you had my back. Maybe not Adam’s, maybe not Ricky’s, but you had MY back. So I broke my backside for you. So did Ricky. There were so many people here like Ari and Adam also who really wanted to trust you – but for no reason you threw shit at them and left to go back to your homies. That was especially evident how you ran away like a scared cat when we wanted to flush that idol. And then you had the decency to say that oh.. Jessy and Benj were the only people you could rely on. They were the only ones who cared about you! I can say that with confidence there was probably no one else in this game who cared about your sorry ass more than I did. And oh did it slap me in the face! It cost me allies and it definitely cost me the game because I do think I could have won.

Are you happy now? This was my ultimate Survivor dream, my once last chance to win and you ruined it for me. For no reason. You ruined it because you wanted to get to the end and you only cared about yourself. But I am glad to be in this position rather than in yours. Know why that is? Because chances are all you will get at this Tribal Council is people being mean to you. If by some miracle you get some votes they will come out of pity more than out of respect. I would give anything to not be in this position if I was you – because I was in All Stars and it destroyed me. It’s mentally exhausting, but sadly, that’s what happens when you betray people left and right without any remorse and care in the world.

And whilst you definitely lost some people this season I can say that I gained a really good group of friends. Friends who I never betrayed and who never betrayed me. Don’t know if I can call you one of them now though.. You ruined so much this game. You were presented with so many opportunities to change this game but in the end you always got scared and ran away. And then when you finally voted me and I survived, all you had to say was “rip I’m sorrrrry” and “well.. you are a jury threat”. Pathetic! You can do better than this! You ripped my heart out that tribal, do you know that? And then, right before I was voted out you actually said to me you didn’t remember making any promises to me! What the actual fuck! I could very clearly remember you doing that – and well it seems that you magically remember it in your speech also. Do you know why Andrei was so mad at me at FTC in All Stars? I made him the same exact promise.

I know you said I would have taken you to the end because “I would have beaten you”. However, that’s the reason Benj and Jessy took you to the end as well. That’s the exact reason. You had no individual play instead of just being a snake and a scared cat. You never did any thing worthwhile on your own. How did you win a season again?

You asked me a couple of days ago if I was mad at you. You asked me whether there was still a chance we could be friends after this season. And you know what – that’s so unfair because that’s basically you looking for the easy way out. Oh Gerda.. sorry for shitting on you this entire season – but can we still be friends after? I must confess that I don’t hate you, but I certainly don’t like you either. I question whether you actually cared for me – as you clearly pointed out at some point in the game, your new Ruellia buddies were really the only ones who did. It sickens me that you are the strongest member of Celosia now, winning immunity twice – once only because your allies made it happen and the other time because you spent a crazy amount of tokens. You do not deserve the position you have right now. Everyone on this jury deserves it a thousand times more.

And as for whether we stay friends, I am honestly not sure. If not, maybe that would teach you to treat some people better in the future. I know it’s just a game, I know I am a 32-year-old woman, but what you did was just despicable. If we do ever become friends again it will take me quite a long time to trust you again. I don’t know if I want to go through that right now.

With that, the rant of my speech is over. As I said, this was just my way of making peace with this frustrating season and I have done so now. Benj and Jessy, if you have comments, post them. Jayme, I need you to actually listen to people for once and show that you care because for all I know, I might not be the only one who feels like this about you. Show us that you actually cared about any of us.

Best of luck!